Why Virtualization tab is not available after installing OpenShift Virtualization

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • The installation of the OpenShift Virtualization operator was successful. All the pods under openshift-cnv are running without any issues. However, the Virtualization tab is not available in the OpenShift Console.
  • Below error is constantly logged in the openshift-console pods:
2023-01-08T21:59:12.937872860Z E0108 21:59:12.937782       1 handlers.go:165] GET request for "kubevirt-plugin" plugin failed: Get "https://kubevirt-plugin-service.openshift-cnv.svc.cluster.local:9443/plugin-manifest.json": context deadline exceeded (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers)

Environment

  • OpenShift Container Platform 4.11.
  • OpenShift Virtualization 4.11.

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